xiv, 361 pages : 25 cm

More extreme than punk, industrial music revolted against the very ideas of order and reason. This book traces industrial music's attitudes and practices from their earliest articulations-a hundred years ago-through the genre's mid-1970s formation and beyond

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-331), and index

I. Technology and the preconditions of industrial music. -- Italian futurism -- William S. Burroughs -- Industrial music and art music -- II. Industrial geography. -- Northern England -- Berlin -- San Francisco -- Mail art, tape technology, and the network -- III. Industrial musical style. -- The tyranny of the beat : dance music and identity crisis -- "After cease to exist" : England 1981-1985 -- Body to body : Belgian EBM 1981-1985 -- Industrial music as a theater of cruelty -- "She's a sleeping beast" : Skinny Puppy and the feminine gothic -- IV. Industrial politics. -- Back and forth : industrial music and fascism -- White souls in black suits : industrial music and race -- V. People and industrial music. -- Wild planet : WaxTrax! Records and global dance scenes -- Q: Why do we act like machines? A: We do not. -- Death -- Wonder -- Suture : from the author's diary -- Postscript

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